
The water was the same deep, indifferent blue it had always been. The waves rose and fell with ancient rhythm….

Cleveland, Ohio. Early 1970s. The factories were slowing down. The promise of the American dream felt like it had a…

In December 1941, California light poured through the windows of a small chapel, glinting off pearls that had once belonged…

April 17, 2018 began like thousands of other flights. Southwest Flight 1380 lifted off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport under…

Eddie Murphy explains why he left the Oscars after ‘Dreamgirls’ loss Murphy clarifies he didn’t storm out after losing Best…

Toronto General Hospital, January 1922. The windows were filmed with frost. The corridors were long and cold, smelling of disinfectant,…

Milwaukee, 1913. The air was heavy with late-summer warmth, the kind that made lace curtains stick to polished windows and…

New York, 1935. A basement morgue. Concrete walls. Bare bulbs. The smell of formaldehyde and cigarette smoke hanging so thick…

“The FBI watched her for 40 years. When she died, they seized her papers before her body was cold. She…

He endured seven years of torture. He cut his own face with a razor. He slashed his wrists to prove…

– Louisiana, September 1944. The train carrying German prisoners slowed at Camp Ruston as nineteen women pressed their faces against…

-April 6, 1945. Off Okinawa in the East China Sea, dawn breaks over Task Force 58 of the U.S. Fifth…

At 7:10 a.m. on June 4, 1942, First Lieutenant James Muri dropped to 200 feet above the Pacific, watching thirty…

November 2, 1944. 3:47 p.m. Somewhere over Czechoslovakia, Lieutenant Bruce Carr watches the oil pressure gauge drop to zero. Black…

April 6, 1945. A Japanese Zero screams through the morning sky at 400 mph. The pilot, Lieutenant Kenji Yamamoto, has…

October 1966. A stuntman dies on John Wayne’s set. The studio’s offer to his widow is an insult. Wayne hears…

March 1969. A one-eyed veteran storms onto John Wayne’s film set—furious, convinced Hollywood is mocking men like him. What happens…

– March 1961. A schoolteacher in rural Montana asks her 12 students to write one sentence to John Wayne. It’s…

– January 1945. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower walks into his office at Versailles for a meeting with Field Marshal…

– The 1883 territorial census for Bitterroot Valley listed the Creel household like any other: one husband, one wife, acreage…